ECUADOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Ecuador mean? 

• ECUADOR (noun)
  The noun ECUADOR has 1 sense:

1. a republic in northwestern South America; became independent from Spain in 1822; the landscape is dominated by the Andes

  Familiarity information: ECUADOR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ECUADOR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A republic in northwestern South America; became independent from Spain in 1822; the landscape is dominated by the Andes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Ecuador; Republic of Ecuador

Instance hypernyms:

South American country; South American nation (any one of the countries occupying the South American continent)

Meronyms (parts of "Ecuador"):

Guayaquil (the largest city of Ecuador)

capital of Ecuador; Quito (the capital of Ecuador)

Galapagos; Galapagos Islands (a group of islands in the Pacific off South America; owned by Ecuador; known for unusual animal life)

Cotacachi (an Andean volcano in northern Ecuador; last erupted in 1955)

Cotopaxi (the world's largest active volcano; located in the Andes in north central Ecuador)

Sangay (an inactive volcano in the Andes in central Ecuador; last erupted in 1946)

Andes (a mountain range in South America running 5000 miles along the Pacific coast)

Chimborazo (a mountain peak in the Andes in Ecuador (20,560 feet high))

Meronyms (members of "Ecuador"):

Ecuadoran; Ecuadorian (a native or inhabitant of Ecuador)

Domain member region:

Puka Inti; Red Sun; Sol Rojo (a small but violent terrorist organization formed in Ecuador in the early 1990s; responsible for bombing several government buildings)

Holonyms ("Ecuador" is a part of...):

South America (a continent in the western hemisphere connected to North America by the Isthmus of Panama)

Holonyms ("Ecuador" is a member of...):

OAS; Organization of American States (an association including most countries in the western hemisphere; created in 1948 to promote military and economic and social and cultural cooperation)

OPEC; Organization of Petroleum-Exporting Countries (an organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the production and sale of petroleum)

Derivation:

Ecuadorian (of or relating to or characteristic of Ecuador or its people)

 Context examples 

A country in western South America, bordering the South Pacific Ocean, between Chile and Ecuador.

(Peru, NCI Thesaurus)

A country in Northern South America, bordering the Caribbean Sea, between Panama and Venezuela, and bordering the North Pacific Ocean, between Ecuador and Panama.

(Colombia, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

For centuries, this practice of recharging mountain aquifers has been conducted in several regions of our planet, although the most-documented cases are found in the high-Andean regions of Peru and Ecuador.

(Researchers demonstrate that Sierra Nevada is home to the oldest underground water recharge system in Europe, University of Granada)

They verified that a total of 14,003 species of seed plant (any plant that bears seeds) exist in the Amazon forest stretching from Brazil to Bolivia, Ecuador, Colombia, Peru, Venezuela, the Guianas, and Suriname.

(Inventory revises down Amazon tree species list, SciDev.Net)